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Yet its thin atmosphere, lack of a global magnetic field, and the resulting bombardment of radiation make the Martian surface an extreme and potentially lethal environment for most known life-forms.

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NASA's Perseverance rover recently had a front-row seat to a rare case of Martian cannibalism: It filmed a massive, swirling "dust devil" engulfing a smaller twister on the Red Planet.

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